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November 20, 2025
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Yet another customer infected and has to pay $100 to undo the damage because of McAfee malware

  • November 20, 2025
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Why is Adobe still attempting to maliciously infect customers computers? For years your own customers have been bringing up this giant problem and it STILL hasn't been fixed


No one wants the most fraudulent 'anti' virus infecting their systems. We had to force uninstall this product using Revo uninstaller, after it was removed we used a real Anti-virus and found over 20 infections, all that showed up right after fraudulent McAfee was installed.

 

What a malicious thing for you to do to your own customers. Most clients are completely ditching your products and installing far superior alternatives because of this.


We replace Adobe's malware with PDF programs that actually function, don't infect computers, don't need an account, and don't have some low IQ chatbot shoved into them.

 

Really cute the links are all off screen. When is this going to be fixed? When you have no market share remaining?

 

Stop tricking people into installing the trojan-horse that is McAfee, no one trusts the scam company that Adobe has become.

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creative explorer
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November 21, 2025

@Marc36511149kyqw technically the choice is there to install it or not! If you didn't want it, then I would have 'unchecked' or 'cancel' to it, and cancel that option. Granted (and I agree), maybe the user experience isn't that great while installing Adobe apps, but the main reason the default setting on the download page or the first screen of the installer is often set to YES (or checked) for the bundled software (McAfee). For the free version of Acrobat, this is a way for Adobe to generate revenue and bundle ot together. It costs money to offer a free product. Like I said, it's a small checkbox to not install. I would just uninstall McAfee and any remnants of that product. Honestly, I use Malwarebytes instead. 

 

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